Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
A LESSON WITH A MORAL.
When Will Our Eyes be Opened to this Great
National Calamity?

When Will Our Eyes be Opened to this Great
National Calamity?
The year 1885 played sad havoc with
many prominent men of our country.
Many of them died without warning,
passing away apparently in the full flush
of life.
Others were sick but a comparatively
short time. We turn to our files and are
astonished to find that most of them died
of apoplexy, of paralysis, of nervous
prostration, of malignant blood humor,
of Bright's disease, of heart disease, of
kidney disease, of rheumatism or of
pneumo nia.
1t is singular that most of our promi-
nent men die Of these disorders. Any
journalist who watches the telegraph re
ports, will be astonished at the number
of prominent victims of these disorders.
Many statements have appeared in our
paper with others to the effect that the
diseases that carried off so many promi-
nent men in 1886. are really one disease,
taking different names according to the
location of the fatal effects.
When valuable horse perishes, it be-
comes the nine days talk of the sporting
world, and yet thousands of ordinary
horses are dying every day, their aggre-
gate loss is enormous, and yet their
death creates no comment.
SO 1t Is with individuals. The cause Of
death of prominent men creates com
ment, especially when it can be shown
that one unsupported disease carries off
most of them, and yet "vast numbers OF
ordinary men and women die before their
time every year from the same cause"
1t is said if the blood is kept free from
uric acid, that heart disease, paralysis,
nervous prostration, pneumonia. rheuma-
tlsm, and many cases of consumption,
would never DE known. This uric acid,
we are told, is the waste of the system,
and it is the duty of the kidneys to re-
move this waste.
We are told that if the kidneys are
maintained in perfect health, the uric,
kidney, acid is kept cut of the blood, and
these sudden and universal diseases caus
ed by uric acid will, iii a large measure,
disappear.
But how shall this be done? It is folly
to treat effects. If there is any known
way of getting at the cause, that way
should be made public. We believe that
Warmers safe cure, of which SO much has
been written, and so much talked of by
the public generally, is now recognized
by impartial physicians and the public as
the one specific for such disease.
Because public attention has been di-
rected to this great remedy by means of
advertising, some persons have not be-
lieved in the remedy. We cannot see how
Mr.. Warner could Immediately benefit the
public in any other way, and his valuable
specific should not be condemned because
some nOstrums have come before the pub
lie In the same way, any more than that
all doctors should be condemned because
so many of them are incompetent.
1t is astonishing what good opinions
you hear on every side of the great rem
edy, and public opinion thus based upon
an actual experience, has all the weight
and Importance of absolute truth.
At this time of the year the uric acid
In the blood invites pneumonia and rheu-
matism, and there is not man who does
not dread these monsters of disease; bat
he need have no fear of them we are
told, if he, rid the blood of the uric acid
cause.
These words are strong, and may sound
like an advertisement, and be rejected as
such by unthinking people, but we be-
lleve they are the truth, and as such
should be spoken by every truth-loving
newspaper